First Lion Air, now Ethiopian Airlines: What caused the Boeing 787 MAX 8 plane to plummet, killing 157 passengers? What little was left was heartbreaking: a battered passport, a shredded book and business cards in many languages. The tattered book, its pages singed, appeared to be about macroeconomics, its passages highlighted by a careful reader in yellow and pink. The plane held 32 people from neighbouring Kenya, including a law student and a football official, a toll that left the country numb. Beyond the yellow tape around the crash site, huddled figures wrapped in blankets watched in silence.

Source: Ethiopian News March 11, 2019 22:09 UTC